This Is What It Looks Like When Right-Wing Activists Run For Public Office

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This Is What It Looks Like When Right-Wing Activists Run For Public Office

Submitted by Kyle on March 5, 2010 - 3:36pm

As I noted yesterday, Rick Green is poised for a run-off election next month for a seat on the Texas Supreme Court ... he is also a Chuck Norris approved, Tea Party Religious Right activist.

So what does it look like when someone like that decides to run for a seat on the state Supreme Court? It looks a lot like this presentation where, unable to tout his judicial experience since he has none, Green instead assured the audience that his hard-core right-wing views would always drive his decision-making process on the bench and all they have to do is look at his long record of right-wing activism to know that there is no need to fear that he'll ever "become a David Souter":

(Video at link: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-it-looks-when-right-wing-activists-run-public-office )

Something that makes me different from all the candidates in this race, and that is unlike most judicial candidates, you don't have to wonder about my philosophy. You don't have to guess what my convictions are or where I stand. You don't have to worry about voting for me and regretting it because I become a David Souter, the ultra-liberal on the United States Supreme Court, appointed by George Bush because everybody though(t) he would be conservative.

It's not enough to say "I'm a conservative," you gotta look at the record. And with me, you can do that. You can look at my voting record when I was a state legislator; when I was a state rep I was considered the fourth most conservative in the legislature. I received the Eagle Forum's "Faith and Family Award." The Chamber of Commerce gave me the "Fighter for Free Enterprise Award." I was co-author of the Parental Notification Bill, I was always a 100% pro-lifer, I had property rights awards, Second Amendment awards.

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The bottom line is, you elect me to the Texas Supreme Court, you can count on me to fight for justice, to uphold the rule of law, but never to legislate from the bench.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-it-looks-when-right-wing-activists-run-public-office



D'oh!

[Ozymanithrax]

1. The champion of anti-intellectualsim...

In this movement real credentials are worth far less than nothing. To them, the most complex issue of law comes down to asshole values. Texas elects him, they get what they deserve.

[Emit]

3. Apparently this was the same guy who punched his Democratic challenger in the face in '06

Rick Green Assaults Patrick Rose


by: Karl-Thomas Musselman
Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 01:51 PM CST

This just in from Hays County.
Former Republican Rep. Rick Green who was taken down by Patrick Rose in 2002, apparently got a little upset over a Rose mailer that had his face superimposed on this year's Republican nominee Jim Neuhaus (as Green is deeply involved in running the Neuhaus campaign).

So upset that Rick Green drove up to the polling location that Patrick Rose was at a punched him in the face, catching him off guard and knocking him to the ground.

Apparently there is an all-point bulletin out in Hays County for the arrest of Rick Green.

Republican values in action?

http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2386

[CanonRay]

2. Except if it's "Christian" legislation from the bench.

Well, maybe corporate legislation, too.